TFN winter road gets $16,200
BEAR ISLAND (Special) – Temagami First Nation is receiving $16,200 this year to build the 12-kilometre winter road from the Lake Temagami Access Road to Bear Island.It’s among the shortest roads in a 3,187-kilometre temporary road network connecting First Nations to other transportation routes.The province announced $4.7-million last week for
“Let’s Talk” over a meal
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Members of a New Liskeard drop-in centre typically serve lunches once a week to raise a little money.But on January 28, they were the guests.The occasion was Bell’s fourth annual Let’s Talk Day, and the location, Rendez-Vous Place.The telecommunications company has designated the date for
All WE ARE IS STORIES
Red Sky Performer Meegwun Fairbrother was at New Liskeard Public School on Thursday, January 30 courtesy of Pied Piper Kidshows. Red Sky is Canada’s leading company of contemporary world Indigenous performance in dance, theatre and music. Former Temagami resident Sandra Laronde is a choreographer with Red Sky. Mr. Fairbrother told
STRIKING DISTANCE
Blindfolds turned Tri-Town Bowling into dark alleys for more than 140 bowlers on February 2. Participants were blindfolded and then guided to the start, in hopes of bowling a spare or a strike. “We’re having a blast,” said North Cobalt’s Michel Lachaine, centre, who guided his father, Guy, as his
Shoebox tally rises in ’13
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – In the weeks before Christmas, donors in the Temiskaming Shores area filled 692 shoeboxes with gifts for children in need around the world.The 2013 tally for Operation Christmas Child was up a little from the previous year, when the local shoebox campaign hit 670.“I was
DTSSAB considers proposed 2014 budget
Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART -- The 2014 proposed budget of the District of Timiskaming Social Services Administration Board (DTSSAB) was reviewed at the board’s regular meeting in Englehart Wednesday, January 22.The board is expected to give the budget its final approval at its February 19 meeting.DTSSAB chief administrative officer Don Studholme
Volunteer earns on-the-job honours
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Public service has led to a public works designation for a New Liskeard man.George Dukovac has been named Temiskaming Shores’ first honourary member of the public works department.Armed with garbage bags and work gloves, Mr. Dukovac is often spotted combing New Liskeard’s streets and parks
EXEMPLARY SERVICE
Transfer of Sacré-Coeur students to St-Michel proposed
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TIMMINS – A review of École catholique Sacré-Coeur in New Liskeard has recommended the closure of the New Liskeard school.An accommodation review committee studying the school’s future has recommended that its students – who currently number 96 in grades 1, 2 and 3 – be transferred to École
Haileybury man faces charges
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – A Haileybury man has been charged in connection with what police describe as a hit-and-run last fall.Temiskaming Ontario Provincial Police say they were contacted shortly before 8 p.m. October 29 when a pedestrian was struck on Highway 65 East by a westbound vehicle that